![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Me Jane (USA 2000) - Dan Hubp
From the Globians Film Festival collection: "Me Jane" takes a candid peek into the bizarre, hysterical and touching life of Jane Tollini, the outspoken penguin keeper, host of the Animal Sex Tour at the San Francisco Zoo and self-proclaimed protector of the animal kingdom. She is a truly unique and inspiring American who believes, "the quicker you turn a tragedy into a funny story the better it will be, not only for you, but for everyone around you." -- Part of this Globians Film Festival collec...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; documentary; USA; California; San Francisco; Zoo; Zoological Gardens; animals; Jane Tollini; Penguins; San Francisco Zoo
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| Y2K (USA 1999) - Dan Hubp
From Globians film collection 2007: Y2K. It could have happened and it could happen again, anytime… –– Short film by Dan Hubp. At Globians Film Collection we track the work of Dan Hubp as a pivotal voice of American independent cinema blurring the boundaries between documentary and fictional work. We were very proud to show his latest short film "The Test" (USA 2007) at this years Globians Film Festival round...
Keywords: Y2K; computer; IT; Information Technology; computer glitch; society; mashal law; infrastructure; urban issues; urban infrastructure; intrusion; urban life endagered
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| Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War [Venezuela Bolivariano: Pueble y Lucha de la IV Guerra Mondial] (Venezuela 2004) - Felipe Garcia
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War by Marcelo Andrade Arreaza examines the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization. The film shows the evolution of the popular movement in Venezuela from the 'Caracazo' riots of 1989 to the massive actions that brought revolutionary president Hugo Chavez back to power, 48 hours after a U.S.-led military coup in 2002...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Venezuela; society; people movements; USA; hegemony; Latin America; Hugo Chavez; riots; military coups; neoliberal; capitalism
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| The Abbey of the Genesee (USA 2005) - Josh Morrell, Paulo Almeida
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: The Abbey of the Genesee is a short film from the perspective of the Trappists Monks of the Abbey of the Genesee, in Piffard, NY. The Abbey of the Genesee is a community of contemplative monks belonging to the world-wide Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.) more commonly known as Trappists. As described in their Constitutions the community belongs to "...a monastic institute wholly ordered to contemplation...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; religion; catholic church; monastery; monks; monastic; monastery life; Piffard, NY, USA; trappist; god; christ; lord; psalm; solitude; Lectio Divina; Cistercians; Cistercians of the Strict Observance
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| Buddha's Painter [Buddhas Maler] (Germany 2004) - Thomas Gonschior
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: After seventy years of darkness, the phoenix of Mongolian Buddhist art is again striking its wings in the form of Master Artist Purevbat and his disciples.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; ethnological; society; socialogical; politics; religion; religious; Buddhism; Buddhist art; Buddhist artists; Buddhist paintings; history; Far East; Mongolia; Mongolian culture; mongolian art; mongolian artists; Purevbat; art schools; art; artists
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| Not This War (USA 2006) - Dan Hubp
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2006 -- Globians film Festival 2006 was proud to present the new film by Dan Hubp: "Not This War" is the story of one woman's accelerating spiral in the face of events that challenge her every belief. In a society where the ideal of honor, duty and sacrifice stand without question, Dorothy's only hope for herself and her tow sons, lies in her willful conviction to take matters into her own hands...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; documentary; USA; Vietnam; Vietnam War; War; Theatre; Drama; Soldier Widows; Soldier Spouce; experimental; home movies; society values; sacrifice
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| Repetition Compulsion (USA 2004) - Jeff Louviere
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005 (at MiniMovies/animation section): A cross between a Joel Peter Wiktin photo and the Cirque de Soleil clowns. Is he a fool or a hero or just us. An enchanting tale of disenchantment. Pride, entitlement, delusion...again.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; Mini Movie; animation; poem; enchantment; surreal; satire; avant-garde; cinematic poem; black&white
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| Tea Space [Chambre du The] (France 2003) - Julien Peuble
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: 2001 : in the heart of Paris, a new construction is being built in a garden, amongs the great stone buildings of the city. This donation of Japan, made in wood, earth and paper will be hosting the act of sharing tea, across cultures & boundaries. « It is made to last for a long time », says the architect Mister Masao NAKAMURA. -- Please visit the official film website at www.summitata.fr (there is also a guest book to gather opinions and feedback).
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Europe; Paris; Museums; Buddhism; architecture; Japan; Japan culture; Tea House Culture; Masao Nakamura; Buddhist architecture
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| Ice Smash (Australia 2006) - Nir Shelter
From the collection of Globians Film Festival 2007: The circle of life embodied in symbolic ice.
Keywords: Animation; Short; Mini Movies; Experimental
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| The Tale of the Goat [Di Mayse Fun Di Tzig] (USA 2004) - Max Cohen
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005 (at MiniMovies/animation section): A short, hand-drawn animation in Yiddish about a father, son, and their goat. The goat escapes from her tether and later returns with milk in her udders. The son decides, against his father's better judgement, to follow the goat on her next journey. The only all-Yiddish animation in the world.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; Mini Movie; animation; jewish; Yiddish; religion; religious; culture; art; black&white
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| Where is Chernobyl [Wo ist Tschernobyl] (Germany 1988) - silent - Joachim Polzer
A silent film essay in Super 8 on the aftermath of the Chernobyl atomic reactor events (which happend April, 29th 1986), filmed in West-Berlin, three and a half years before the Berlin Wall fell, while shooting another documentary. Basicly it is all a question of montage...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; documentary; essay; German Cinema; Germany; Berlin; Tschernobyl; Chernobyl; essay; experimental; news headlines; Super 8
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| Half City [Halbstadt] (Germany 1988) - silent - Joachim Polzer
One year before the Berlin Wall fell, this silent black&white documentary from 1988 is a profile of West-Berlin: places and people, moods and locations; you eventually see "Checkpoint Charlie" still in function. It's a documentary shot in autumn and winter in all shades of grey, black and white.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; essay; Germany; Berlin; West-Berlin; Berlin (West); Berlin Wall; city profile; Super 8; black&white
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| WAIA - Memory of Clubs and Maracas [Part 1] (Japan 2004) - Tokoda Kazutaka
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: This extensive documentary by Tokoda Kazutaka shows the performance of very rare initiation rites by the Xavante tribe in the Sangradouro region of Brasil (north of Mato Grosso). This initiation rite of the Xavante men endures for about 30 days and is performed every 12 years only. Japan film maker Tokoda Kazutaka was given permission to film the extraordinary procedures...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; ethnological; Brasil; Mato Grosso; Sangradouro; Xavante; tribe rites; culture; initiation rites; men rites; natives culture; native cultures; Male rites
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| New Berlin [Neues Berlin] (Germany 1995) - Joachim Polzer
6 years after the Berlin Wall fell and 5 years after German unification this 3 min. documentary from 1995 looks into the fast changes in architecture and street life of Berlin Mitte and stays in tune with a piano piece of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; essay; Germany; Berlin; city profile; 16mm; piano; Beethoven
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| Contrapunto (USA 2004) - Jean-Pierre Jacquet
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005 (at MiniMovies/animation section): In a Buenos-Aires barrio, a dancing couple explore the intimacy of an Argentine tango: a sound, a scent, a gesture, a look, a smile, a tear, a trembling body, nervous hands, a sense of implied trust and respect, all emotions set in motion by this glorious music.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; Mini Movie; animation; poem; enchantment; dance; dancing; tango; Argentina; Argentine tango; avant-garde; cinematic poem; color
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| 101 (USA 2004) - Matt Ogens
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005 (at MiniMovies section): Set in an old age home, 101 explores the process of aging through the eyes of a 101 year old woman.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; Mini Movie; documentary; human condition; aging; old age; old age homes; USA
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| Thatta Kedona - The Toy Village of Pakistan - Part 1 - with English Subtitles (Germany 2005) - Joachim Polzer
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: Thatta Kedona is a remarkable village in rural Pakistan. 36 volunteers from Western countries have visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project since 1991. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan are products which generate cash income for the farming families through the local cooperative-like NGO. But those volunteers from Western countries are also having fun by working creatively in a remote village of Isl...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; Pakistan; development aid; development projects; NGO; NGOS; Germany; German; Punjab; River Ravi; Okara; Lahore; dolls; tin toys; ethnic groups; Senta Siller; Norbert Pintsch; solar; water; adobe architecture; local culture; cooperatives; rural development
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| Neuerburg (Germany 1996) - Joachim Polzer
Theater director Ursula Neuerburg talks about her professional work and living in New York City while the camera observes the energetic and power driven nature and emptyness of Iceland's landscapes before switching over to the observation platform of the Empire State Building at dawn. It's all about montage...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; experimental; biographic; theatre; theater; directors; art; USA; New York City; Iceland; Germany; German
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| To Sense And To Fancy [Sinnen und Waehnen] (Germany 1988) - silent - Joachim Polzer
A fast railway and motorcar travel from West-Berlin (which it was one year before the Berlin Wall fell) to the south coast of Portugal called "Algarve".
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; experimental; Portugal; Algarve; Germany; Berlin; railways; travel; railway travel; Super 8
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| Delbanco (Germany 1990) - Norbert Pintsch
Lifelines in the 20th century: A profile from 1990 on Kurt B. Delbanco, who was born 1909 in Hamburg (Germany) and died on November 16th, 2007 in NYC. After his emigration from Nazi Germany to the USA (via England) he worked in New York City as an art dealer, painter and sculptor. -- He was inspired by Goethe's color theory, Bauhaus abstraction and the idea of "decoration". His portraits have been collected by, among others, the U.S...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; Lifelines in the 20th century; profile; biographic; fine arts; fine art; Bauhaus; Goethe; artists; art; USA; New York City; Germany; German; emigration; Jewish immigration from Germany
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| Variations on a theme: To Be An Israeli Woman - Regina (part 1 of 6) [Variatzyot al noseh: Liiyot Israelite] (Israel 2004) - Ziva Postec
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: A saga about Israeli society from five feminine point of view. The film examines the meaning of identity in a land of immigrants like Israel -- in the search for roots, the tension between tradition and modernity, between past and present, between Israeli identity and Jewish identity, as well as in the difficulties faced by other ethnic identities. In the mirror that the five women hold up to us, we will see images different from the ones we had before t...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Israel; Jewish; Jewish identity; Jewish immigration from Russia; sociological; Israeli identity; Ukraine; identity; feminine point of view
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| Variations on a theme: To Be An Israeli Woman - Rebecca (part 4 of 6) [Variatzyot al noseh: Liiyot Israelite] (Israel 2004) - Ziva Postec
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: A saga about Israeli society from five feminine point of view. The film examines the meaning of identity in a land of immigrants like Israel -- in the search for roots, the tension between tradition and modernity, between past and present, between Israeli identity and Jewish identity, as well as in the difficulties faced by other ethnic identities. In the mirror that the five women hold up to us, we will see images different from the ones we had before t...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Israel; Jewish; Jewish identity; Jewish immigration from Ethiopia; sociological; Israeli identity; Ethiopia; identity; feminine point of view
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| Variations on a theme: To Be An Israeli Woman - Naomi (part 3 of 6) [Variatzyot al noseh: Liiyot Israelite] (Israel 2004 - Ziva Postec
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: A saga about Israeli society from five feminine point of view. The film examines the meaning of identity in a land of immigrants like Israel -- in the search for roots, the tension between tradition and modernity, between past and present, between Israeli identity and Jewish identity, as well as in the difficulties faced by other ethnic identities. In the mirror that the five women hold up to us, we will see images different from the ones we had before t...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Israel; Jewish; Jewish identity; Jewish immigration from England; Jewish immigration from Germany; sociological; Israeli identity; England; identity; feminine point of view
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| Fanad Head (Germany 1988) - silent - Joachim Polzer
Fanad Head is a remote light house in North-West Ireland. This 6 min. short documentary short in dirty black and white Super 8 inspects the light house installations and service supply delivered by a helicopter even in bad wheather conditions.
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; essay; Ireland; light houses, helicopter; remote locations; Super 8; black&white
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| Variations on a theme: To Be An Israeli Woman - Aziza (part 5 of 6) [Variatzyot al noseh: Liiyot Israelite] (Israel 2004) - Ziva Postec
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: A saga about Israeli society from five feminine point of view. The film examines the meaning of identity in a land of immigrants like Israel -- in the search for roots, the tension between tradition and modernity, between past and present, between Israeli identity and Jewish identity, as well as in the difficulties faced by other ethnic identities. In the mirror that the five women hold up to us, we will see images different from the ones we had before t...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Israel; Jewish; Jewish identity; sociological; Israeli identity; identity; feminine point of view
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| WAIA - Memory of Clubs and Maracas [Part 2] (Japan 2004) - Tokoda Kazutaka
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: This extensive documentary by Tokoda Kazutaka shows the performance of very rare initiation rite of the Xavante tribe in the Sangradouro region of Brasil (north of Mato Grosso). This initiation rite of the Xavante men endures for about 30 days and is performed every 12 years only. Japan film maker Tokoda Kazutaka was given permission to film the extraordinary procederues...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; ethnological; Brasil; Mato Grosso; Sangradouro; Xavante; tribe rites; culture; initiation rites; men rites; natives culture; native cultures; Male rites
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| Papaderos - Alexandros Papaderos, co-founder and president of the Orthodox Academy of Crete (Germany 1991) - Norbert Pintsch
Lifelines in the 20th century: A profie from 1991 on Alexandros Papaderos, the co-founder and president of the Orthodox Academy of Crete. As a child Papaderos had to suffer hard during WW2 from German occupation of Crete from Nazi-Germany soldiers. During his school education he discovered a completely different view on Germany: Germany, a culture of philosophers and poets. This particular contrast between his own experiences and his learned knowledge about German history brought him to universi...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; Orthodox Academy of Crete; Crete; academy; profile; profiles; Alexandreos Papaderos; Lifelines in the 20th century; studies; research; education; communication; Germany; WW2
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| Thatta Kedona - The Toy Village of Pakistan - Part 1 (Germany 2005) - Joachim Polzer
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: Thatta Kedona is a remarkable village in rural Pakistan. 36 volunteers from Western countries have visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project since 1991. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan are products which generate cash income for the farming families through the local cooperative-like NGO. But those volunteers from Western countries are also having fun by working creatively in a remote village of Isl...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; Pakistan; development aid; development projects; NGO; NGOS; Germany; German; Punjab; River Ravi; Okara; Lahore; dolls; tin toys; ethnic groups; Senta Siller; Norbert Pintsch; solar; water; adobe architecture; local culture; cooperatives; rural development
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| Variations on a theme: To Be An Israeli Woman - Lea (part 2 of 6) [Variatzyot al noseh: Liiyot Israelite] (Israel 2004) - Ziva Postec
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: A saga about Israeli society from five feminine point of view. The film examines the meaning of identity in a land of immigrants like Israel -- in the search for roots, the tension between tradition and modernity, between past and present, between Israeli identity and Jewish identity, as well as in the difficulties faced by other ethnic identities. In the mirror that the five women hold up to us, we will see images different from the ones we had before t...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Israel; Jewish; Jewish identity; sociological; Israeli identity; identity; feminine point of view; artists
Downloads: 1,791
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| Thatta Kedona - The Toy Village of Pakistan - Part 2 - with English Subtitles (Germany 2005) - Joachim Polzer
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: Thatta Kedona is a remarkable village in rural Pakistan. 36 volunteers from Western countries have visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project since 1991. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan are products which generate cash income for the farming families through the local cooperative-like NGO. But those volunteers from Western countries are also having fun by working creatively in a remote village of Isl...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; Pakistan; development aid; development projects; NGO; NGOS; Germany; German; Punjab; River Ravi; Okara; Lahore; dolls; tin toys; ethnic groups; Senta Siller; Norbert Pintsch; solar; water; adobe architecture; local culture; cooperatives; rural development
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| Thatta Kedona - The Toy Village of Pakistan - Part 2 (Germany 2005) - Joachim Polzer
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: Thatta Kedona is a remarkable village in rural Pakistan. 36 volunteers from Western countries have visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project since 1991. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan are products which generate cash income for the farming families through the local cooperative-like NGO. But those volunteers from Western countries are also having fun by working creatively in a remote village of Isl...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; Pakistan; German Cinema; development aid; development projects; NGO; NGOS; Germany; German; Punjab; River Ravi; Okara; Lahore; dolls; tin toys; ethnic groups; Senta Siller; Norbert Pintsch; solar; water; adobe architecture; local culture; cooperatives; rural development
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| WAIA - Memory of Clubs and Maracas [Theatrical Trailer] (Japan 2004) - Tokoda Kazutaka
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: This theatrical trailer announces the extensive documentary by Tokoda Kazutaka which shows the performance of very rare initiation rites by the Xavante tribe in the Sangradouro region of Brasil (north of Mato Grosso). This initiation rite of the Xavante men endures for about 30 days and is performed every 12 years only. Japan film maker Tokoda Kazutaka was given permission to film the extraordinary procedures...
Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians Film Festival 2005; Globians; documentary; ethnological; Brasil; Mato Grosso; Sangradouro; Xavante; tribe rites; culture; initiation rites; men rites; natives culture; native cultures; male rites
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